NP - Gaddis
Mark Thibodeau
jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com
Tue Jul 11 12:09:06 CDT 2017
Who is trashing Gaddis?! Particularly "beyond the idiot Franzen"?!
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On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 12:18 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> The New Yorker just had a long piece on Texas and it's politics, some
> harbinger of the future of America with its starved and obscene, religious
> wing nuts, ad infinitum.
> Gaddis was and remains for me a refreshing cudgel upon the heads of such
> rampant stupidity and malice but reading the article leads one to think
> it's gotten even worse.
> It's funny how often Gaddis gets trashed now beyond the idiot Franzen. Yet
> no one has reached the heights WG landed in just 4 novels.
>
> rich
>
> On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 2:54 PM Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've spent the past couple of years feeling like one of those halfwit
>> monks described in The Swerve. This is the first period of time I've had to
>> read something big on the ever expanding list.
>>
>> Given how hard it was to find for so long, I'm certain not everyone has
>> The Recognitions, so I wanted to share the moment when I believe I may have
>> fallen in love....
>>
>>
>> -Your father's father, she corrected him sharply, but her voice broke,
>> almost bitter as she looked away, not for the death of her brother but to
>> insinuate that he had abandoned her in this bondage of mortality. She
>> talked to Wyatt familiarly of death, as though to take him with her would
>> be the kindest expression of her love for him possible: still, she never
>> spoke directly of death, never named it so, but continued to treat it with
>> the euphemistic care reserved elsewhere for obscenity.
>>
>>
>> It sets up like Bierce, and then the punchline is not another artfully
>> engineered clause or sentence - it's ONE word.
>>
>> It gives me wood......
>>
>> love,
>>
>> cfa
>>
>
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